Reading
Acceleration
“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
- William Godwin
When I read, I learn to:
• Communicate effectively.
• Build strong character and social responsibility.
• Use high levels of thinking skills.
Goal Expectations:
Bronze:
Read a total of 5 books from any of the three categories.
Read at least 1 book from each of the three categories.
Silver:
Read a total of 10 books from any of the three categories.
Read at least two books from each of the three categories.
Gold:
Read a total of 15 books from any of the three categories.
Read at least three books from each of the three
categories.
Name: ______________ Grade: _____ Teacher: __________
Newberry Winners
Beehive Nominations
Appleblossom the possum by Holly Sloan
Beast Keeper by Lucy Coats
The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
My Brother Is a Superhero by David Solomons
Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
I am Princess X by Cherie Priest
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
Jackaby by William Ritter
The Leveller by Julie Durango
The Night Divided by Jennifer Nielson
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
The Six by Mark Alpert
The Boys who Challenged Hitler by Phillip Hoose
Patriotic Pics
Across 5 Aprils
Al Capone Does My Shirts
As Simple as it Seems
Because of Winn Dixie
Belle Prater’s Boy
The Black Cauldron
Book of a Thousand Days
The Book of Three
A Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
Brown Girl Dreaming
Catherine Called Birdie
Chains
Chasing Redbird
City of Orphans
A Corner of the Universe
Counting by 7’s
Crash
Dragonwings
Elijah of Buxton
Esperanza Rising
Everything on a Waffle
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
The Eye, the Ear and the Arm
Flipped
Gathering Blue
Girl In Blue
A Girl Named Eva
A Girl Named Disaster
Goose Girl
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Harriet the Spy
Here Lies the Librarian
Homecoming
Hoot
House of the Scorpion
Ida B
Inside Out and Back Again
Joey Pigza Loses Control
The King’s Fifth
Last Girls of Pompeii
Letters from Rifka
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
A Long Way from Chicago
Nothing but the Truth
The Outsiders
The Magician’s elephant
The Magician’s Nephew
Messenger
The Mostly True Adventures
of Homer P Figg
Milkweed
My Brother Sam is Dead
My Name is not Angelica
My side of the Mountain.
One Came Home
Out of my Mind
Palace Beautiful
Princess Academy
Red Moon at Sharpsburg
Ruby Holler
Rules
Savvy
Sign of the Beaver
Silent Boy
Sing down the Moon
So Be It
Someone Named Eva
Son
Stargirl
Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Stowaway
Streams to the River, Rivers to the Sea
Summer of the Monkeys
The Teacher’s Funeral
Tennyson
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle
Tuck Everlasting
The Underneath
The Wanderer
The Watson’s go to Birmingham
Wednesday Wars
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wonder
Wringer